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SOURCE: Salon
5/18/2022
Buffalo Shooting Draws Attention to "Ecofascism"
The ideology links far-right authoritarianism with environmental concerns through the idea that an excess population of nonwhite and non-western people are responsible for overconsumption and waste.
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SOURCE: Baptist News
5/13/2022
The Religion of the "Lost Cause" Is Back, and It May be Winning
by Bill Leonard
The weaponization of Southern Christianity around perceived threats to cultural integrity today adapts the playbook of the Lost Cause to the present.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/18/2022
"Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy
by Adam Serwer
Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.
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5/18/2022
Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth
by HNN Staff
This conspiratorial claim of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrant voters has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/15/2022
Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting
"The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."
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SOURCE: NPR
5/16/2022
Kathleen Belew: Buffalo Massacre Likely Driven by "Great Replacement" Myth
"A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine known as 'replacement theory.' It's just a new name for an old set of racial hatreds, Kathleen Belew told NPR."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/15/2022
Buffalo Mass Shooting Demands We Think About American Racism
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The gunman's manifesto shows the dangerous convergence on the right of anti-Black racism and a belief in white persecution. It also shows why the right is working so hard to fight teaching about racism in history classes.
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5/1/2022
When Will the French Dam Against the Far Right Crack?
by Brian Sandberg
Macron is the latest representative of the French center to call for an electoral coalition to act as a "dam" against the far right. In another French presidential election, the dam has held, but will it endure?
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SOURCE: Vice
4/13/2022
The Far Right is "Doxxing" More School Officials they Claim are "Groomers"
Online calls for violence against teachers and school staff suggest that the right's portrayal of LGBTQ adults as inherent threats to children will soon generate a body count.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/16/2022
If GOP Cared About Kids, it Would Protect them From White Nationalist Recruitment Online
by Ibram X. Kendi
Why aren't conservatives up in arms about the "grooming" of white youth by white supremacists in online communities?
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SOURCE: Journal of Democracy
4/19/2022
To Save la République, Macron Can't Ignore the Left
by Moshik Temkin
Macron's centrist strategy in the face of a rising far right is dangerous, but reflects the long turn to the center by the Socialist Party. Can he expect left-leaning constituencies to once again vote to save France from fascism while getting nothing in return?
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SOURCE: PsyPost
3/30/2022
Ignorance of American Political History Correlates to Support for Christian Nationalism
Survey research suggests that respondents who support the idea of a Christian America are not ignorant or unintelligent, but motivated to actively affirm statements about government and history that align with their theological precepts.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
3/31/2022
The White Nationalist Fringe is Moving to the Center of the Republican Party
by Annika Brockschmidt
The embrace of the white nationalist right by the Republican Party is reflected in the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene's political endorsement is, second to Trump's, the most sought-after for party candidates.
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SOURCE: Oxford American
3/22/2022
Questing for the Past
by Katherine Churchill
A nameplate in an 1864 edition of Gawain and the Green Knight led the author to discover the connections between a mythic medieval past and the Lost Cause ideology of Jim Crow Virginia.
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SOURCE: Dame
3/14/2022
How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism
Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
2/17/2022
American Antisemitism and Nationalism in the Charlottesville Verdict
by Victoria Saker Woeste
The awarding of $25 million in damages from the organizers of the Unite the Right rally to nine people injured in the violence are not enough of a penalty to stop the political mobilization of antisemitism in the new white nationalist coalition.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
2/10/2022
Missing from the Conversation on Christian Nationalism? Whiteness
by Peter Laarman
The extreme wing of the Christian right is attracting attention for its rhetoric equating freedom with their own power to determine the course of society. A minister argues that recent works in religious history show that it's a mistake to leave out the significance of white racial identity to that movement.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
2/16/2022
The Paranoid Style Comes to Canadian Politics
by Eric Merkley
Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.
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SOURCE: Dissent
2/9/2021
Focus on the Family? The Problems with Blaming GOP Radicalism on Family Business
by Paul Heideman
Is the rise of the privately-held megacorporation the root of the radical conservative movement, or has corporate America long had a right-wing fringe?
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SOURCE: Truthout
1/28/2022
Fascism's "Legal Phase" is Here, and the Threat is Real
by William Horne
The authoritarian right has identified the institutional weak points in American institutions and is preparing to exploit them to seize power and excuse political violence. This happened before, with Jim Crow the result.
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